skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>... people were willing to pay for an a set of partially broken dishes if they were compared to an incomplete set than if they were sold alone...

I think this is similar to what is described by Dan Ariely in his book, Predictably Irrational, as the Decoy Effect. Relevant excerpt from Wikipedia [1]:

"People not only compare things, but also compare things that are easily comparable. For example, if given the following options for a honeymoon - Paris (with free breakfast), Rome (with free breakfast), and Rome (no breakfast included), most people would probably choose Rome with the free breakfast. The rationale is that it is easier to compare the two options for Rome than it is to compare Paris and Rome. Ariely also explains the role of the decoy effect (or asymmetric dominance effect) in the decision process. The decoy effect is the phenomenon whereby consumers will tend to have a specific change in preference between two options when also presented with a third option that is asymmetrically dominated. This effect is the "secret agent" in many decisions."

In your case the third choice - email - is the decoy or secret agent - making the other two options more attractive for ease of use.

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictably_Irrational
Edit: Wikipedia link
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Ouch: Romney Calls Tesla a ‘Loser’ in 1st Presidential Debate
i think, all this interest around for Tesla, grants and Obama associated with election president program. I like Teslo but it is too early say about loosers or winners Teslo.
Getting a technical co-founder can be easy. There are plenty of talented techies that have already got a product ready to go or nearly ready that need someone to go out there and pitch and sell it. look for them. Ask on HN if anyone has a product that you can sell. I'm sure the response would be good, as long as you can deliver.
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Finally! (not related to TypeScript being released, right?)

Sarcasm aside, I really wanted Dart to succeed, but I want to say, too little, too late.

TypeScript has interop in day 1, and is 100% seemless, they won, that's it, end of story.

Even if Dart VM is amazing, even if the language is genius, how can you beat a langage that is just JavaScript + static typing?

I would shift resources out of the Dart project for now, join the TypeScript team and do a Google-Microsoft bipartisan project for the benefit of the world...

I'm sure some people from Microsoft are getting job offers from Google as we speak...
> Not true.

You have a signed contract that says so? If not, you can't promise that since you don't have that authority.

Ancestry has a long history of acquiring sites where people join in community to work together on genealogy, and then destroying those sites, removing them from competition. They are evil. I have no problem with them charging for access to data they have paid to scan, convert and put together, that's a great service to offer. But that's only part of their operations. A big other part is the acquisition of publicly available free genealogy resources where the hard work has been put together for free by the general public, and eliminating those sites so that every imaginable genealogy related search only goes to their pay sites. Their usability also sucks. They are predators that destroy genealogy, and they are thieves. Enjoy your ill gotten wealth my friend, I hope it is worth the eternity in hell that anyone associated with this criminal organization has surely earned for their despicable acts. Or hey why not just down vote inconvenient facts about a dangerous bad corporation that causes great damage into oblivion, relax in the hot tub and drink another marguerita while chuckling.
This is one of the reasons why I'm never giving up my unlimited data plan on Verizon, even if it means not buying any more phones on contract. The freedom that comes from not having to worry about how much data you've used this month so far is wonderful.
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I don't think "betting against it" is accurate terminology - the general consensus is more that the mobile device infrastructure isn't ready for HTML5 yet (in terms of performance etc). I think it will catch up... probably within the next couple of years, but until then we need to think about our current users and the experience they receive.

On a side note I see the article mentioned using a hybrid app - I think that is an acceptable "in-between" at the moment. Personally though I have found maintaining hybrid applications cost a lot in extra development time - I really hope it pays off in the long term.
And Android (to a lesser extent). While I was in China, I was blocked from buying any apps as paid apps aren't available there. Even dialing a VPN wasn't enough - the phone knew where it was.

With the amount of stuff(TM) that we buy digitally now, this is becoming a huge problem.
At least you had the ability to modify your details in that case. With this blogpost it sounds like your location is immutable once your account is created.
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1) Drupal's great if you can accept something close to what you want - that has most (but not all) of what you want, plus some stuff that you didn't need. But if you're dealing with perfectionists who want things precisely their way, then you'll spend a lot of time and add a lot of complexity overriding, suppressing, and customizing things and gluing clusters of modules together. Sometimes more than if you'd just built what you needed from scratch.

2) Initial standup can be very quick and easy, especially if you can do it with mostly out-of-the-box stuff (see 1). But over the long-term maintenance and development can be extremely difficult.

3) If you're stuck using designs from designers who aren't skilled with Drupal, theming is likely to be inordinately difficult. Drupal provides a great amount of useful tools and utilities to designers, but if the designer doesn't use them then you basically have to rip them all out and/or override them all and the theme can grow monstrous.

4) The ability for a 'non-technical' user to do so much through the admin interface is a great strength. But the fact that there is so much there in the admin interface (scattered around by the different modules) means that non-technical users often can't (or won't) use it without a thorough understanding of Drupal and the modules. It's too complicated. So you'll need to add time to strip out, simplify, and rework the admin interface. Even then, you may still end up with programmers being tasked with content edits.

5) The database for config+content really is a big issue that majorly affects long-term maintenance and continuing development/deployment on a live site. 'Features' and exportables are not a good enough fix. They're better than nothing, but don't rely too heavily on them. They break down in a lot of cases. D8 promises to be better on that issue...we'll see.

6) Performance really is a problem. For any moderately complex and trafficked site, you have to set up proxies and elaborate caching and etc. etc. just to get "okay, I suppose that's acceptable enough" performance. It can be done, but it's a major headache. That's a tradeoff for the flexibility and modularity.

I've built scores of sites in Drupal over the years, and it's a great tool, but it's far from perfect. It's all about tradeoffs, and often the greatest strengths are also the greatest weaknesses. You just have to decide whether it fits what you need. If you can live with the drawbacks, then it's good. If not, then you'll need something else which will have it's own different set of drawbacks.
Good article on bias of rankings:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/02/14/110214fa_fact_...

Malcolm Gladwell isn't my favourite source of information, but there are some good points about the U.S. News University rankings.
Update regarding the Svbtle theme.

I sent a tweet (https://twitter.com/lylemckeany/status/253688832501874689) to Dustin early asking about it. He kindly asked me to change my theme and I will in the next couple of days when I can get around to it. I thought/hoped that the Gravity on Mars developer(s) had his permission to create it, but that is definitely not the case.
I've always been amazed at how crappy various forms of region locking are -- DVD's and game consoles come to mind.

It's not necessarily bad news for the company: Making your customers purchase the same product multiple times sounds like a great business model, if you can get consumers to accept it. Which people generally do, unfortunately.
How would women become commodities? With that many extra men I would imagine they would be precious and highly sought after.
On the right of each song page is a section dedicated to explaining the whole song. I don't see the problem.
This is another way of paying for a qualification that you don't deserve, and in doing so it dilutes the standard of graduates. I've heard personally from an Indian friend that this is very common - and is the reason that he came to Australia to study.
Oh definitely so. But his statements have no sense of any of that, one would never suspect anything is being withheld, they come across perfectly sincere and warm and from him and not from some lawyer, it's masterful.

Yeah, there's some dodgy stuff, a lot of information about these cars, such as the reality about their batteries and how much energy they really use to go from A to B over time has high spin when I start looking into details. Was genuinely surprised.

Thanks for the details about what the financing is really about, that's very interesting info.
My university's name is in the list but links are down. Wondering if my academic records are out there.
thanks so much for this. I've fixed this now. A late change caused this issue on mobile browsers. i would appreciate any feedback people can give me on the site.
When the government set up and fostered the development of the Internet, was it picking winners and losers then, too?
That is factually incorrect. You can come here on an F1 visa, get a degree and then get a H-1b
The title is completely ungrammatical.[1] Hate to be pedantic, but it is a sure sign of sloppy thinking. And lack of editing at WaPo.

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[1] Or, illogical. Either way, poor use of words.
I think it's really nice of them... having Google say something nice about something Microsoft did is not taken for granted, and feels more like just talented people aknowledging the work of other talented people.
I find the tone of your comment condescending. It almost seems like you have some sort of a grudge against people who managed to go to the US. Your tone reflects this:

"working today in the US and probably will end up being US citizens."

So? And what kind of a generalization are making here anyways? You are meaning to say: "All people who did this cleared GRE/ GMAT and went to the USA". That's a gross overstatement based on no evidence. Not to mention the fact, assuming even if they did get their project made from somewhere else (I really doubt it that it happens a lot), they still had other academics to clear. And they had the GRE exam. And then they cleared the job interview. Means they were not as dull and stupid as you want them to and show them to be.

Your tone and your attitude seems more of hate based than anything else.
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Are you claiming Groklaw fabricates court PDFs?

Otherwise,what the F did you just post?
This also impacts you as a developer in the Microsoft ecosystem. I signed up for a Windows Phone developer account and released several WP7 applications while living in Canada. I just recently moved back home to Australia and on trying to update my contact details, payment information, etc. found that everything is locked to Canada (and, subsequently, bank/credit accounts that are now closed).

Words can not express how poorly I think of Microsoft at this point.
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I agree with you about linking Apple and Chinese. When I think of the Apple labor force I automatically think Foxconn, which leads to thoughts of labour camps and worker suicide, not that that's the whole picture of course.
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I was bitten by this. Hailing from India and living in Canada, having bought a new Xbox that came with a game download, I was not able to download it because the game was not allowed in my region. I had to create a new account for it
I spent a summer at one of the universities in this dump. It just looks like wordpress user info - nothing particularly sensitive about the data, and mine wasn't in it.

Edit: Looks like one of the tables has plaintext passwords. If I recall correctly, security practices at this university were horrible - social security numbers could be accessed in plaintext, and resetting a password took only a single security question without email confirmation.
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I'm a huge Elon Musk/Tesla/SpaceX fan, and have often felt it would be the ultimate opportunity to work at either company (Tesla would be my first choice, as automotive interface tech is one of my passions).

However, doing a quick bit of research earlier today, a search for "Tesla working environment" turned up more than a handful of reports by former and current employees that hint at an unpleasant company culture. Six to seven day workweeks, below average compensation, hyper-political management, management that is quick to fire, and a generally chaotic environment. These factors seemed to be reported even by folks who cited other benefits such as a high degree of autonomy and the opportunity to work with other highly passionate top level engineers on important emerging technologies. One additional oft-repeated concern was that the pace at which Tesla works its engineers is unsustainable, and will lead to burnout for lack of work-life balance.

Can anyone closer to the Valley than I am comment on whether these concerns ring true? And how does this compare to work at other highly innovative and passionate industrial startups?

Elon's explanation of the latest round of fundraising is welcome news, and personally I'm gunning for Tesla to become the Apple of the auto industry. (I plan on buying stock as soon as I'm able.) Is there anything we can infer from these employee reports about the health of Tesla's organizational core/DNA, and what effect that might have on the company's prospects for long term success?
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Yes.

I'd prefer to change the semantics than introduce new keywords. Of course there are two schools of thought - I favour a small language over backwards compatibility. (And interim tools for migration).

Where I do favour extensions is for expressiveness or performance reasons.
I have no idea but it was my first assumption. But then I also assumed it was taken out of context.
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So in the name of smart work, technical career has no growth path

That doesn't quite make sense. Wouldn't technical work be the "smart" work?
How much of this is also a reflection of autonomous navigation, risk avoidance, and proceeding at a deliberate pace? While we've got vehicles on Earth which can navigate established highways at, well, highway speed (Google cars), the established road network on Mars is substantially less extensive, and the downside risks (in terms of mission outcome) of even a small mishap on Mars would be very high.

So: for both engineering reasons (power supply & motors vs. scientific payload) and risk mitigation, you end up with systems which are mobile, but only at a very slow crawl.

Incidentally: Mars also limits the options for higher-mobility systems. The atmosphere is too thin for conventional winged aircraft to be terribly effective (they'd have huge wingspan requirements relative to payload, and very large turning radius and stall speeds). Balloons would be impractical. The gravitational force is high enough that a multi-hop lander relying on rocket thrust would be expensive.

Some sort of robotic tumbleweed / beachball might work, though unless these had some means of getting themselves unstuck, would likely just scatter over an area of terrain (erm, marscape?), before settling against an outcropping or at the bottom of a ravine, crater, canyon, etc.
That's okay, seriously. I have no intention of ever using paypal ever again. Case closed. I wonder how many new customers this is going to loose them? Only time will tell.
Very much so -- watching it live, it really did not come across that harsh (this coming from someone who will 99% certainly be voting for Obama).
> So in the name of smart work, technical career has no growth path, no long term rewards.

This is a defeatist attitude - giving up before you even start. Its surely better to learn technical skills and then later-on develop your business/management skills if required. Saying that students cheat because they have no long term reward is a poor excuse.
its not hacking..they just got some useless information..
There's no energy-related company named Tester, though. So I think that was a transcription error by ABC (which does not make the context any less important).
So in order to "print $person->first_name;", you must first create formatters, display modes, and templates? Point goes to the one who's saying that it's overly complicated. Drupal makes it easy to do difficult things, but infuriatingly difficult to do simple things.
I've been bitten by this too. I like my Windows Phone, but having to do a factory reset to a new account when moving to a new country was infuriating.

I don't see why individual purchases can't be linked to a region (and region specific credit card) rather than the entire account.
You're caricaturing what I said, which is not good HN manners.

The most effective leaders project an image of getting what they want, regardless of obstacles. People prefer to work for, do business with, and invest in people who can maintain that image.

If you think leadership should be a human right granted equally to all people regardless of genetics, society has a long way to go. Fortunately, it's possible to live a fulfilling life without being a leader.
It is nice to see that they've come so far from the days of "Lockitron (YC S09) Lets You Unlock Your Door With Your Phone"

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2546752
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This is exactly why there is a "shortage" of STEMs in the USA. There is no real shortage of talent, interest, or desire. There is a shortage of good career tracks. It is the'interchangeble parts' problem.
Actually this is extremely common and infact, projects for undergraduates and post graduates are a thriving business in India. The colleges give a damn about this and they are seldom bothered. This kind of practice is extremely common in government aided universities in India.

But, I must also say that there are some universities where the students perform exceptionally.
I disagree. If you don't like the external costs of a particular form of energy you can tax it directly. Taxing things you don't want is different than subsidizing particular companies offering particular alternatives (i.e. picking winners and losers) since it does not favor one solution over another. Government should act as referee, not venture capitalist.

One irony to Tesla is that while they do benefit from loan programs they would have been much better off if GM and Chrysler had been allowed to fail. As it is now Tesla has to compete with companies with strong government support.
Not to pick one side or the other, but Tesla was made possible by artificial means, not market demand. The time will come when batteries are cheap and powerful enough that you could buy an electric car for $10k, but that time is not now and the government should not be an investor - historically it has both a bad record of managing budgets and delivering innovation per the dollar...And don't start with arguments about the internet - it was actually Xerox that largely made the internet possible:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044446430457753...

Edit: overall, I have to concede, it is kind of dumb to attribute the internet to a single entity or person - it was a pretty natural progression of technology - basically the digital evolution of phone lines. Could you imagine trying to patent the internet?

If the government really wants to help out with energy, it should loosen environmental restrictions. I am as much a supporter of green tech and protecting the environment as the next guy, but there is something like 1000x the volume of natural gas under our soil as all the oil in the world combined. The sheer amount of wealth generated from tapping that resource could fund all kinds of green tech, and lessening foreign dependence creates jobs here and makes us stronger politically.
In what sense are the labels a leaching industry given that they put up a major proportion of the resources to produce the "content?" Spotify is a straight up middle man, what value do they really add?
Google confirms it's buying facial recognition firm Viewdle
96% on this program so far is possible, but there are numerous other examples of the USG investing in businesses which fail, and even worse records for state/local governments (stadiums and convention centers being the classic example)
> PHP is the Model T of web languages: people love to laugh at it because it's old and ugly but it nearly single-handedly revolutionized the landscape. I for one applaud any efforts to revive and improve this language.

I agree with the first part. But when the rest of the world has moved on to '56 Chevy Bel-Airs, does anyone really want a "revived and improved" Model T?
> If you fail via a bank loan, the bank still wants their money AND interest.

If your business goes bankrupt, the bank only gets their money if they required you to personally cosign for the loan. Of course, if your business isn't profitable yet, it's likely that they'll make you do exactly that, as a condition of getting the loan in the first place -- especially for tech companies that don't have many assets that can be liquidated in case of failure.
I said the market fails to pick the efficient winners and losers. I wasn't advocating for a particular form of addressing that problem.

Also, I'd arguing that taxing a particular form of energy is equivalent to picking a loser.
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That's certainly consistent with conservative tech skeptics. I think the grandparent post offers a worthwhile alternative interpretation, but I think the majority of people would go with yours.

That said, the majority of people probably found both candidates too wonkish and abstract in this debate for many minds to be changed. As a policy guy, I enjoyed it, and I thought Romney did well for himself although I prefer Obama. But the candidates talked past each other to a large extent, and both were pulling their punches a little.
That list looks surprisingly good, so I looked at their methodology. Methodology looks great and makes sense to me, a lot better than the (widely criticized) methodology US News & Report uses. Of course nothing is perfect, but some things are better than others. Also kudos to them for featuring their methodology on a prominent and obvious tab rather than burying or hiding it. Very professional approach I would like to see adopted widely.
From an American taxpayer point of view, yes they are. We aren't going to get our money back anytime soon if at all.